Senator Mark Pryor wants our ideas on how to cut federal spending. Take a look at this video clip below:
Senator Pryor has asked us to send our ideas to him at cutspending@pryor.senate.gov and I have done so in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
On May 11, 2011, I emailed to this above address and I got this email back from Senator Pryor’s office:
Please note, this is not a monitored email account. Due to the sheer volume of correspondence I receive, I ask that constituents please contact me via my website with any responses or additional concerns. If you would like a specific reply to your message, please visit http://pryor.senate.gov/contact. This system ensures that I will continue to keep Arkansas First by allowing me to better organize the thousands of emails I get from Arkansans each week and ensuring that I have all the information I need to respond to your particular communication in timely manner. I appreciate you writing. I always welcome your input and suggestions. Please do not hesitate to contact me on any issue of concern to you in the future.
Here are a few more I just emailed to him myself:
- Eliminate direct corporate welfare payments by:
- Closing down the Minority Business Development Agency (2004 spending: $22 million, discretionary);26
- Disqualifying high-income farmers and agribusinesses from farm subsidies ($8,000 million, mandatory);27
- Eliminating the Small Business Administration ($3,978 million, discretionary);
- Terminating the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (-$157 million, discretionary);
- Shutting down the Trade and Development Agency ($62 million, discretionary);
- Eliminating the Market Access Program ($119 million, mandatory);
- Closing down the Export−Import Bank
(-$1,582 million, mandatory); - Repealing the Davis−Bacon and Service Contract Acts; and
- Terminating the Essential Air Service Program ($57 million, discretionary).
This is how bad it is getting:
Popular Programs Are Growing Rapidly
- Lawmakers have had difficulty setting budget priorities in recent years. In addition to funding two wars and the largest anti-poverty budgets in American history, they have increased spending on popular programs like education, veterans benefits, and Medicare at unsustainable rates.